amazon WD My Book reviews
Beautifully designed, large capacity, high-speed USB 3.0 ports and secure backup software make WD My Book an effective, secure, and cost-effective external storage drive.
My Book is a desktop external hard drive model introduced by WD along with the WD My Passport portable hard drive tested at Test Lab. WD My Book now has a completely different design than the old My Book, which has a shape that looks like a thick book on a shelf.
In terms of looks, it can be said WD My Book 2016 is the desktop version of the new WD My Passport portable hard drive because of the identical look, only the size of My Book is “more large” because it be equipped 3.5-inch HDD hard drive standard on the inside.
Similarly, WD My Passport, the My Book 2016 series also comes with 3TB, 4TB, 6TB storage capacities and up to 8TB storage, suitable for users with large storage needs. According to WD, the new My Book external hard drive has only one black color, not as many color options as the WD My Passport.
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The WD My Book test version at Test Lab is 6 TB in size, 170x140x50mm in size and weighs 1kg.
About the interface, the new WD My Book drive comes with a USB 3.0 port with theoretical bandwidth of up to 5Gb/s, enabling data transfer speeds up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0.
Specifically, when testing the performance of the new WD My Book portable hard disk drive with the ATTO software via USB 2.0, Test Lab found that read / write speeds were 34MB / s and 27MB / s, respectively. USB 3.0 speeds reach 171MB / s and 173MB / s. To test the read / write stability of your WD My Book drive, the Test Lab uses the HD Tune Pro software. During the read and write process, the jagged line shows that the speed is not really stable. The average read speed of USB 3.0 is about 132MB / s and the average write speed is 115MB / s. Meanwhile, average read / write speeds measured through USB 2.0 ports are 27MB / s and 20MB / s, respectively.
WD offers a My Book hard drive, a suite of WD Backup software that automatically backs up images, music, videos, and personal documents from your computer system to your external hard drive; WD Security helps keep your content private, secure; Finally, the WD Drive Utilities software is a tool for monitoring, analyzing hard drive status, scanning for bad sectors, and providing secure data erasure in the drive.
In addition, WD My Book also includes 256-bit AES encryption technology that securely secures personal data inside the hard drive. Technically, if your device does not encrypt your data, when it’s lost, all your important, sometimes sensitive, images, videos, and documents may be exposed. Therefore, important data encryption is extremely important for you to protect yourself, to avoid leakage of personal information.
With its sleek design, large storage capacity, high-speed external USB 3.0 interface, and software bundled with many useful features, the new WD My Book edition drives provide a storage solution.